The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-03-30
THE CITY Or rHE SAND HILLS.
FULTON. S. c., March 21, 1887.

Those gen;uses who have recently aired
their divine ,fautus, IL prose and metre
writings upon the 5alny Spring resonant
with the sweet syAphony Of birds, and Of
the air, f.aighte6 with the perfume OF sweet
wild wood flowers, etc, were evidently llt-
tie premature and can relegate themselves
to ESSAYS and rhymes upon rheumatlcs and
chilblains: that is, judging fror! the temper
uture of last week with its edged winds and
almost zero mornings with the blightins
trosts OF wintei i4,teal OF tie traas!ucen,
dew ct Spring It is universally believed
that tie beach crop has been destroyed.
Whooping cough doesn't seem to have al
entire monopoly IN the epidemic business
for railroad talk, speculation, and gossip to-
gether With timber hunters and gasse-S, and
would-be timber sellers. appears to be a dis
ease with some Just now, and the contaGlon
seems 70 have spread to Sunmerton aud
Pano;a. As foreShalowe il the columns
Of the TtiEs, early in January, this railroad
movement, as lar, 1T least, IS concerns the
Manchester and Augusta road, VIII end IN
the substantial genuiness cf the road being
built. and at once. Colonel Bridges, during
a recent visit here, said that the company
would IN all probability build branch road
FROM Antioc!: 10 Sum merton; sol our Sum
friends TAI! il securing the Eutaw. lie they
can ssii back on the Manchester and Angus
Ia.
When our communities are willing to SUBJ
scribe large sums Of money, and townships
! impose tax as inducements for RAILROAD
construction. it seems elmostlncredible that
VII I 8 company ask Only for u free right OF
hat it should be met by opposition.
Neye. .vheless, such WAS the case here, as some
wanted bonus for this privilege to the Com
pauv The Company were, however. FORUM
ate in selecting as their agentto obtain grant
of way, the genial and popular DR.: Il. J.:
! McLauTil, whose argumentatlre talent and
| the rlel:ihuous tones Of whose mellow voice
has acted like the songs Of the sireo upon
the hitherto obdura.e opposers OF giatul-
tous right of way. One gentleman lining i,
Sumter County being the only person who
still declines to convey toe right. AS soon
as this case is satisfactorily arranged, VIC
learn, that the contract for construction
from Sumter to the Santee river will DE CIV
en- out. Bacchus Richardson who recently
escaped from jail, seems perfectly at ease,
and says ne has no apprehension OF recap
| turc.
From our esteemed friend, Mr.. T., H.
W!therspoon. We learn OF the ravages n the
| Calvary ana Pamela sections, Of a Wild an :
! NAL the like of which the eye Of man had
not seen, or the heart OF man conceived,
and whose parallel cannot be found in Zoe
logical ethics SO far. this beast has evlnced
an epicurean pre:ii.cction for fat specin:eas
of the canine breed; entering as it does the
yuds o; peaceful c;tizens and triump5an y
bearing away the faithful watch dog. denoc
It's thought by some that this is an arensiDg
nemesis sent out by the disappointed advo-
Gates o1 the bill to tax dogs. We call upon
our citizens to arise in their majestic might
and STAY this terrible creature ere It lnvadeS
the sacred precincts Of Fulton, for who
knows but whatits predaceous appetite may
take cacnibalistic turn and oerour the
goldon haired. rosy checked cherubs who
are wont 10 promenade our highways:
AKGoSAUT